A clinical lecture on remissions and relapses in insular sclerosis / by Thomas Buzzard.

  • Buzzard, Thomas, 1831-1919.
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[1904]
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    portion of cases the course of insular sclerosis is marked by more or less frequent remissions and recurrences of symptoms. The fact was recognised by Charcot and has been mentioned also by succeeding writers, but to my mind sufficient prominence has very seldom been given to this interesting and exceptional feature of the disease. It has appeared to me worth while, therefore, to devote a lecture to the subject and thereby perhaps to aid in drawing more particular attention to a peculiarity of the disease which may be found to bear with some importance upon its diagnosis and it is conceivable also upon the question of its etiology. This feature is illustrated by the case of a female patient in attendance. The patient is a married woman, aged 36 years, who was admitted into the hospital under my care in September, 1900, complaining of loss of power in the left leg, weakness across the loins, a general feeling of weakness, numbness of the fingers of the left hand, and weakness of the bladder. Such were the symptoms which she herself described. Others were brought out upon examination, and we shall come to them presently. She said that her illness had lasted about 18 months, but on further questioning her it appeared that this short period by no means really represented the •duration of her disorder. 12 years previously, in September, 1888, one year before her marriage, she had complained of numbness in the soles of the feet which ‘ * felt as if they were asleep.” This lasted for a week and then passed off entirely. In September, 1889, about the time of her marriage, numbness in the feet re-